Rajshahi oath buyer in grip of grim tailback

Rajshahi city experienced heavy traffic congestion through illegal parking unauthorized rickshaws, auto rickshaws and man tractor in nearby markets, shopping centres and other important installations.

The problem is shopping continue to intensify by the large number of people to markets for oath.

According to informal sources, there are about 30,000 rickshaws, 3,000 auto rickshaws, 1,500 people tug, play the streets of the city, and most of them are not authorized.

The authorities of Rajshahi City Corporation, said however, that the number of rickshaws not more than 18,000.

Townspeople claimed that the rickshaws impede the parking and the movement of the car as the rickshaw pullers, of which are most illiterate, go by the traffic rules.

Unauthorized auto rickshaw is busy on the Rajshahi Natore points, add also the congestion in the town of Rajshahi Chapainawabganj and Rajshahi Naogaon.

Although the Rajshahi City Corporation rickshaw stands at various points in the city as well as on all 30 stations established rickshaw pullers said parking not their rickshaws to the stands, sources in the RCC.

Professor Ruhul Amin Pramanick, Joint Secretary of Rajshahi Association, a political group, said new age the number of accidents on the roads in the city of Rajshahi was frightening lately due to the unauthorized vehicles.

He called for and implementation of the ban on the battery operated auto rickshaws, human traffickers and other risky vehicles.

One of the other main reasons behind the congestion in the city of Rajshahi is makeshift shops on the streets.

Peddlers have grabbed the streets Ganakpara, Saheb Bazar and new market, and they have their business for Eid on the streets causes marketing, heavy traffic congestion.

Deputy Commissioner of the metropolitan police in Rajshahi, recognizes the problem of unauthorized auto rickshaw stands, new age said that she would start car against illegal parking and unauthorized shutdowns.

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Al-Qaeda number two killed in Pakistan

Al Qaeda new Deputy, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, died this week in Pakistan, one ' large activators of the group still taumelnd from the death of Osama bin Laden, US officials said Saturday.

Rahman, a Libyan national, rose to number two on the ground, Ayman al-Zawahri took the reins of the al Qaida after bin Laden U.S. was killed in may in Pakistan in one.

Officials how Rahman was killed, but said it happened in Waziristan in the north-western Pakistan, where intelligence officials believe the al-Qaida members are hiding not said.

' Atiyah's death a great loss for al-Qaeda, because (Zawahri) strongly among was calling on him to help lead, and lead the Organization, especially since bin Laden's death,' said a US official.

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Israelis back protests against cost of living

More than 20,000 Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and elsewhere in the country late on Saturday in fresh protests against the rapid development of the cost of living, media reports, that.

The numbers were far below the more than 3,00,000, which earlier this month, "Social justice" and "Welfare State", new organizers tensions with the Palestinians blaming.

Since mid-July, Israel has of a fast-growing protest movement gathered demanding cheaper housing, education and health care.

' Security issues have always existed in Israel. You will not stop our struggle ' student union leader Itzik Shmuli said the demonstration in Tel Aviv in a week for a ' million-man March "call.

Noam Shalit, father of the Israeli soldier kidnapped Gilad Shalit in Gaza in 2006 was the guest of honour at the Tel Aviv rally on the occasion of the 25th birthday of his son.

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Cap corners in Dhaka City draw shoppers

Caps consumers opt for Eid prayers in a store on the site of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque in the capital on Sunday. -New-age-photo

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Oath shopper, in addition to prayer buy clothes, shoes, cosmetics and other equipment, obtain accessories to achieve Festival preparation.

Prayer Cap, Rosary, Attar, prayer mat, etc. on the Eid Congregation in the morning with religious fervour buy people.

Bait-ul Mukarram market is the Centre of the prayer accessories in the city. More than 100 shops dealing in the elements - local and imported.

Many types of prayer of caps, such as Haji Tupi TK 50 and TK-200, Yemeni Tupi TK 150 TK 200 and China Tupi TK 200 per piece is available on the market.

"As people get more fashion conscious, style in the prayer CAP has changed in the course of time", said seller Shafiq, the article eight years sold.

Prayer has College and new market is available in and to which all other shopping centres, including Piryani, Dhaka.

However, for expensive caps, people go in Basundhatra city, where prayer cap at TK-3000 and Pakistan together with Malaysian VIP is limited to TK 1250.

There are also rosaries precious materials such as ivory at the expense of the TK 95,000 from Madina.

100 Bead Kala Marzan and cut cost TK 30,000 and 33-bead black coral Rosary is sold at TK 30,000. Pearl Rosary is available at TK 1,500 to TK 8,000.

"In Rosary beads are subdivided a 100 bead in three groups of slightly larger three beads after every thirty-three beads, is", seller Abdul said Squad of Al - musk-shop at Basundhara city.

Rosary beads, made from gold, silver, are yellow, coral, etc. also Bait ul Mukarram.

Atoshi beads Rosary cost TK 1,500, white Akik TK-650, Akik TK 200-600 and Rosary beads are sold at TK 50-200.

Japani fibre Rosary cost TK 40 and Radium China, the local TK-20 sales at TK 30, radium China Rosary is very popular at present.

China count Rosary 1 lakh pearls will be sold on TK 120.

Nahida of Badda bought Pakistani Jaitun rosary to TK 150 and China Jaitun Rosary TK 80 for her family and one from Bangladesh cod prayer mat TK 150.

Indonesian together with prayer mat is sold at TK 600 and Turkish with a TK-550.

But most customers choose foreign mats from Belgium to TK-2000-9000, Syria TK 1600-2000, Turkish TK 900-1500, Jashim a Basundhara city shop salesman, said.

"A new prayer Cap carries a traditional appeal more than religious significance during Eid," said Mizan, who came, rosary and prayer to buy mat in the vicinity of Bait ul Mukarram.

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Move the most Pvt Univs not on permanent campus

Most private universities have not on its permanent campus with only a few days, before to move the Ministry deadline for universities to do so.

Only nine of the 54 private universities can move to its permanent campus as of Saturday, according to University Grants Commission.

The Minister of education, Nurul Islam Nahid, in December 2010 said that the Government would not allow admission of students, private universities, that move not on permanent campus, after September 2011 by you the deadline of five years after the universities operation started.

The UGC report says that eight universities take to move a step on its permanent campus, although the period expire soon.

Some universities started construction of buildings and other universities have bought that not their sites run country but on their own land. And they have also related papers to the Commission.

UGC Chair, AK Azad Chowdhury, said that universities which don't go through the Government's decision not to new students may register after September.

But time academic life of the existing students get the University authorities, he said.

Nahid said later that the Government would consider the matter, if universities were able to show that they tried that move on permanent campus.

The Ministry of Education decided if universities in the country bought them for the permanent campus could documents, the Government would stop not recruitment.

According to the latest UGC report are the eight universities that movement not was unable to deliver any documents of the Commission until August 25 University, Prime University World University of Bangladesh, Prime Asia University, Royal University of Dhaka, Presidency, Darul Ihasan Victoria University of Bangladesh and Bangladesh Islami University.

Some of these eight universities submitted their documents the purchase of land, after the submission of the report of UGC.

UGC official said that there were problems with the papers of the land of the universities.

They said that it runs its campus in Dhaka but outside Dhaka had bought some universities. And there are also problems with paper for some owners.

The question of the UGC Chairman said, that they have a Committee to review whether the documents of the country have been up to the mark.

Nine universities, which have been moved to its permanent campus, are North South University, University of science and technology, international Islamic University, Chittagong, Ahsanullah science and Technology University, International University of business agriculture and technology, BGC trust University Bangladesh, Bangladesh University of business and technology, independent University Bangladesh and Stamford University Bangladesh. BRAC University moved to the campus to the Savar but was still start its academic activities, UGC, officials said.

Construct the seven universities, the buildings on their land are Ganabishwabidyalay, South East University, City University, East West University, University of Asia Pacific, Daffodil International University, and Eastern University.

The Vice-Chancellor of World University of Bangladesh, Abdul Mannan Choudhury, said new age however, that they had tried to move permanent campus on their since 2004.

' It is a misunderstanding between the

Commission and universities. We have already presented our documents of the Commission, "he said."

The UGC Chairman, said that private universities by the private University Act 2010 must comply with.

"We want to be unusually hard not on private universities, but we will not compromise with the quality of higher education." Private universities must follow University Act 2010, the private "he said."

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India graft protests expose ruling Congress errors: analysis

An anti-corruption movement return India has a serious but but not treated Congress opportunities return fatal blow to the decision back to power in elections in 2014.

Which have a party, almost two weeks of massive protests, under the direction of 74 years self-proclaimed Gandhian activist Anna Hazare torn by indecision, lack of leadership, poor judgment and suspended in connection with the concerns of a country with 1.2 billion people.

"In the hour of his greatest need, the Congress not have top leaders the party." Anna Hazare movement threatens the survival of a UPA (Government) on the verge of breakdown, "news magazine India today" said.

The Congress Party of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty in power for most of the time since independence in 1947, must a way for KeyState elections next year and in 2014, recovery can find national elections.

Recent opinion polls show the Hindu nationalist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party edge of the Congress Party, after the Hazare an unknown member in national politics threw movement - the middle class vote.

Hazare gathered millions of predominantly urban middle class, angry at the inability of the Government on rampant corruption, apparently by the arrest of Minister and the poor state of infrastructure and services in a country that has grown in recent years with about eight percent per year.

The crisis has taken a toll of governance. A number of important bills, including land reform acquisition and planning, retail for foreign companies, has come to a halt.

Economic growth should in the next few years, the Central Bank, cut its forecast slowly - a minimum lift millions out of poverty to below eight percent for this year and repair or rebuilt, crumbling roads and facilities.

' Since 2004, Congress strategy was to have the successes and failures to deny... It worked, so far, "said Sanjaya Baru, editor of the newspaper business standard and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh media consultant from 2004 to 2008."

India performed by an unusual setup of murdered former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was Italian wife when the Congress Party Chief Sonia Gandhi, since 2004, sets the political agenda and the Prime Minister is running daily affairs.

Sonia is India's most powerful politician, but she not decided in contrast to previous leaders of the star-crossed family to become Prime Minister. This is to follow, the party returned, especially since she took States operates for a silent disease in the United States three weeks ago are.

Rumors that swirls in the corridors of Parliament say that she can return relatively inexperienced son, Rahul not to run the party and instead control on her. Congress denies this.

Singh, frail after two heart operations, is regarded as a symbolic and avuncular figure, the blame for not crack on graft.

"Has the seemingly perfect distribution of power between Sonia Gandhi, who imploded politician and Manmohan Singh, the policy wonk," said a party making available the torn India by indecision and miscommunication, today.

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Taiwan braces for Typhoon Nanmadol

Taiwan has issued a warning Sunday as Typhoon Nanmadol approached, say, that let the storm, at least seven people dead in the Philippines can bring torrential rain and strong winds.

Typhoon Nanmadol is forecast to Eastern Taiwan on Tuesday, so that the first storm, which hit the island this year said the Central Weather Bureau.

It called for the public to stay away from the mountain regions and low-lying regions such as the typhoon in fierce winds and heavy rains raise sparking flash floods and landslides.

The Typhoon was 0200 GMT 160 kilometers southeast of the southern tip of Taiwan, the Bureau said.

It was said that the storm gusts of 155 km an hour and moving north packaging was eight kilometres per hour.

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Super Typhoon leaves eight dead in Philippines

Super Typhoon Nanmadol killed at least eight people and left flattened bridges and roads in their wake as it removed churned out is blocked is from the Philippines and towards Taiwan, officials said on Sunday.

The toll of dead and missing is expected to increase, such officials as the full impact of the storm judge, made the strongest country in this year, said Emilia Tadeo of the report area civil damage.

"After the rains have subsided, which is only if we find the additional losses and damage, if the local responders tried us, ' said Lozano."

Five died by landslides, including two children buried by an avalanche of garbage a bit in the northern mountain city of Baguio, who said civil protection.

Two people drowned while another was crushed by a falling wall, weakened by the rain.

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Thousands in flood affected Satkhira stream in streets refuge

The queues of provisional shelters on roadsides and high grounds in the strong tide are affected areas of Satkhira district every day with fresh herds of homeless entry, find no refuge in already crowded shelter houses, ever longer in schools, universities and other institutions.

Reaching the streets in the relentless rain people beyond the reach of hungry flood, but new face difficulties, beginning with an acute lack of materials to accommodation with, mainly polyethylene sheets and fencing were preserved.

According to Satkhira facilitate administration building have 8,26,124 people 1,95,562 families affected by the floods in 66 unions and two communities under six comprehensive district. Of them, the 27.816 severely affected families in 288 protection houses have recourse.

The number of houses within a RADIUS protection has been 243 on 18 August, but it increases up to 280 on 21 and then reached 288 on 27 August.

Still every day, which will continue to increase number of people flock to reduce in the streets, and other high grounds, facilitating Office data sources said more houses.

Also leave a number of people, the refuge in the houses of the protection stench of human excrement from adjacent areas are also them, not in the location, the over crowding and therein. The insufficient toilets in the protection force the refugees to surrounding places to use the call of nature, said relief Office data sources as well as the flood to answer people affected.

The Administration has only 78 pieces of the plane, arc against a huge demand of thousands of families for polyethylene distributed leaves, plane, plastic sheets and blue leaves on some kind of roofs to protect against rain 250 plastic sheets and 250 blue, and if it stops, they said the Sun.

But said some non-government organizations also polyethylene sheet among the people along the roadsides squat distributed had, but they were yet to receive information about.

Parts of Keshobpur and Monirampur of Jessore and Paikgachha of Khulna have affected also by the flood, according to the administration of the districts.

"I came in this lonely highway in my village three days ago but am through the roof fall still with the rainwater soaked," Gazi Mohiuddin of Kanaidia village Tala shortly in Satkhira said new age, sitting in a shelter from walls of torn cloths and a roof of the mother leaves.

"I am always wet dry in the open air in rain and in the Sun." I need urgently a polyethylene sheet now, "he said."

Mohiuddin lost his house more than three weeks ago and took refuge in a nearby house. But, when the flood situation deteriorated, he fled to in the local school protection turned home, where he has come on the road.

Habibur Rahman Gangarampur village under the same shortly which took protection on the Paikgachha-Khulna highway in the vicinity of his village home, said the queue of makeshift shelters on the highway became more and more by the day, and badly needs people, polyethylene sheets and fencing materials to some protection from the elements.

Such as Mohiuddin and Habibur, thousands of people have it on the roads, including the Khulna-Paikgachha Highway, Khulna-Satkhira Highway, and Kanaidia Jethua, Tala Kumira, and Binirpota-Rajnagar-WDB streets, while thousands more for them.

"More than a thousand families taken my Union, protection on the Khulna-Paikgachha Highway and that most of them need polyethylene sheets and fencing materials," said Khalilnagar Union Parishad Chairman Pronob Ghosh Bablu new age.

Satkhira Deputy Commissioner MD Abdus Samad said they were polyethylene leaves the flood affected population spread and various NGOs were to do the same.

However, he claimed that the number to protect houses and people, the refuge on the streets on the retreat as the "Situation was improving".

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Yemen Navy foils suicide attack

Yemen-Marine has thwarted a suicide attack on one of its warships off the coast of the al-Qaeda stronghold in the province of Abyan, the Defence Ministry said on Sunday on its Internet site ready.

"High speed boat trying our warships Saturday to approach, to 21: 00 local time (1800 GMT)' from Abyan, Navy Chief Rear Admiral Ruiss Abdullah Mujawar was quoted: on the 26sep.net website."

The ship continued on its course despite warning shots fired and 'Naval forces then on the craft, which fell along with its occupants fired', he said.

The Defense Ministry said the small boat with explosives filled have been, but gave no details of those have been behind the failed attack.

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Number of dance show on Maasranga in oath

A four-episode dance program cultural association Shadhana 'Nitol Paye' submitted is in the Maasranga TV during Eid Festival with Rabindra Nritya, tribal, folk and contemporary dance broadcast.

The show starts from the second day of Eid special programme on Maasranga TV and continue to four consecutive days from 18: 30-19: 00 et

The first episode of the show is five choreographies by Rabindra Nritya Tagore songs eki Labonye, O Jonaki, Tomar Khola Hawa, MOR Bina and DUI hatred Kaler Mandira function. Bharatnattyam dancer, Arpita Shome, is credited with the choreography and upcoming young dancers of Shadhona accompany her on the show.

Second episode was with four tribal dance together Bharatnattyam dancer Amit Chowdhury and creative dancer Sabbir Ahmed Khan Biju developed choreography.

The program will perform dance at Santal and Bihu Amit. Samina Hossain prema will perform on Manipuri Lasya and Korotali.

The third episode of the series has four folk dances. Biju and Amit will choreograph each three and a dance pieces. Three girls, the winners of the competition dance Meghe Dhaka Tara, seen running with song Lal Paharir deshe Yes, choreography: Amit. In addition, Biju of three choreographed dances highlighting Lathikhela, Putul for and Biyer after are other attractions of the show.

Four pieces of the contemporary dance are displayed on the final day. Subash Chandra from Calcutta, before recently a workshop on contemporary dance at the Shadhana choreographed two dance pieces for the show. Amit, along with Imran and Robin, in the dance pieces performed said new age "for the first time, told me, classic jazz dance, filled with emotional movement ',"

About their performance in Rabindrik dance Arpita, said, "it is really innovative opportunity oath to celebrate festivities with Rabindrik dance."

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India initiated building integrated check post in Petra pole

India Saturday's Foundation the integrated check box digitally to the Petra pole in Indian territory to Bangladesh Benapole land port, export and import between the two countries in a comprehensive system.

It takes building the modern check box post which is likely to make passenger immigration and goods smooth, 17 months, officials said.

Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram Foundation which the 172 case crore check box-post in the presence of his Bengali counterpart Sahara Khatun and Paschimbanga of Chief Minister Mamata Banarjee.

Paschimbanga of the Food Minister Jyotipriya Mallik received Sahara Khatun, who led a delegation to Petra pole, the No. mans land on November 11.

Sahara told reporters that the new check post would contribute to increasing trade between Bangladesh and India.

She told Chidambaram that Bangladesh would try to set up a similar review post in its territory with ease-export-import activities and immigration through the land ports.

"This check post of export and import, reduced the harassment and curb corruption, as well as facilitating" Joint Secretary (political) Kamal Uddin Ahmed new age said.

He said that that training and importation of were less would be time consuming, as would be brought under a comprehensive system of bilateral trade across the border.

Our correspondent in Jessore said that sub-Saharan Africa and Chidambaram a meeting before the foundation stone of the ceremony.

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Time to act on errant private universities

With just a few days on the September 2011 the Ministry of education for private universities in the country on permanent campus to move time limit laid down, it's time for the Minister of education to his word and by the fact that no longer moving universities an example set new students. According to a report Sunday in the new age front-paged only nine out of 54 universities in its permanent campus as a Saturday can move. Some universities which have begun to have purchased construction of buildings or land, earn a kind of mild or extension, such as the Minister had earlier promised, but the eight universities mentioned in the report, could have submitted no documentation to submit or incorrect documents, certainly deserves to be taken operation. If the Ministry would now dillydallies or backtracks measures, under pressure, under some new pretext, as it set a very bad example for the future implementation of the rules and regulations, especially as the directive is possible, keep the private universities up to speed since December last year.

It is also appropriate to back look what the inclusion of the obligation to operate from permanent campus, in the private universities Act 2010, first and foremost to prompted. In accordance with article 17 of the Constitution of the country, free and compulsory education for all children, as well as effective measures to education related to the needs of society and produce sets the state firmly committed to properly trained and motivated citizens to serve these needs there is no room for the commercialization of education or treat education as a consumer product profit-maximizing, taking into account the principles, to drive the such provisions. Private universities, initiated in 1992 on the background of the great discrepancy in the number of available seats at public universities in the country and the demand for higher education. While private universities certainly be scope for exact revenue for the services that they must provide, they must however, fact, their constitutional commitment by the Government guarantees certain standards of education, by the private universities comply with set.

Before the quality of education of the country ferried a product is out on the road and out of control device, should intervene the Government to its constitutional obligation in the framework of the needs of the society. The Government should certainly an example of some these errant universities, where appropriate, in phases, starting from the bottom up, make the institutions recognize the serious intent of the Government and their routes, mend. Also should the documents, which also regularly monitor of the universities, the Ministry of education, through the Committee to verify and, where appropriate, examine their progress, claims as heavily weighing it and fears that some of these institutions of country without serious intentions acquire shift its campus at these locations.

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4 in line a family burned gas explosion

Area suffered severe burns in a gas explosion early Saturday in their rented house in Basabo in the capital Sabujbagh said four members of one family, including two women, the family and hospital.

Which injured craft dealers Kayes Rahman, his wife Jesmin Akhter, and their 10-year-old a-year son Hasibur Rahman, were Dhaka Medical College Hospital burn and plastic surgery unit while her relative, Sonia Akhter after treatment was released, the family said, admitted.

Suspected officials of Titãs, gas transmission and distribution company that gas casting cracks in the pipeline filled a room on the ground floor of a 2-storey building and caused the explosion when it came with fire in touch.

'The gas explosion found in our bedroom about 01: 15 when I tried a cigarette with a game stick,' Kayes said new age which burn and plastic surgery.

Jesmin fell asleep and three more were clapping, when the incident took place, Yesmin the Jesmin said sister,.

"Doors and Windows were closed and maybe it helped to fill gas," she said.

Kayes said that she had previously informed the homeowner about the leaks gas line.

New age on phone said the homeowner, Abul Kamal Azad, private gas-line had technicians it checks twice and found no leakage.

"I however asked tenants to window open,", he said.

Burn and plastic surgery was unit suffered burn injuries in particular on face, hands and legs the patients.

A Titãs gas transmission and distribution company team under the direction of Mamtaz Uddin visited place in the morning.

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Algeria attack raises fears of militant range

A suicide attack on an Algerian army barracks left many issues such as militant succeeds to find in one of the safest places in the country and stirred dark memories of the last conflict.

Two suicide bombers hit the barracks to kill housing a renowned military school in the coastal city of Cherchell West of Algiers on Friday, 16 soldiers and two civilians.

More than 20 people were injured, Algeria APS quoted authority the Ministry of defence as talking.

"When I learned that the barracks were taken, I it, could believe" said Yahia Keriani, runs a book-stall close to the connection and is one of the explosions.

' Cherchell of the military school is the largest and the most secure in the country. How is this possible? "

Algeria, an energy exporter and a key US ally in its campaign against al-Qaida, is created by nearly two decades of conflict between security forces and Islamic militant groups, which is about 2,00,000 people killed.

Violence died himself in recent years, but the militant - operate now as Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) - ambush to carry out kidnappings and occasional bombing.

Algeria has said that it believes AQIM take advantage of the chaos in neighboring Libya and smuggling weapons from this battle zone to its base in the Sahara.

On Friday, which drove the attackers until the barracks soon after Iftar - as Muslims their daily fast break during the holy month of Ramadan.

Residents said that the first attacker exploded at the entrance before the second in the front courtyard, where officers were you to eat.

In the Centre of Cherchell assembled about 100 km west of Algiers, in the Roman ruins of the city, the news to digest small groups of people.

Many of these Cherchell had been always safe, even at the height of the Algerian violence.

In the past had focused attacks on area east of the capital, including the mountainous region of Kabylie AQIM has a stronghold.

Said "a suicide bomb attack in 2011 against the military school of Cherchell very worrying," told of Reuters an older inhabitants.

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Ex-Deputy PM scrapes to victory in Singapore

The ruling party de facto candidate in Singapore presidential election, scraped to victory after a dramatic recount on Sunday and quickly recognised that Singaporeans wanted a greater voice in the Government.

Three months after the opposition a historic breakthrough in parliamentary polls, was former Deputy Prime Minister Tony Tan President by a margin of only 7,269 voices of 2.1 million votes cast chosen.

The 71-year-old Bank took little more than 35 percent of the vote, also under the received 60 percent of the ruling people's action party in general elections in may, when the party had the worst ads from 52 years in power.

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Plundered singer show room

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Perpetrators cash of TK-3 lakh looted and plundered the show-room of the singer on Pilkhana Street in the city after the Iftar Saturday.

Manager tells the story of the show-room Nyamul Haque, which was later badly attacked, journalists, armed a group of 10 or 15 local clubs with deadly weapons attacked show room at 19: 45 you attacked him and damaged televisions and other valuables before looting the cash TK-3 lakh.

Haque was the Dhaka Medical College Hospital admitted.

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Gaddafi, the Mujib see killer protected his own case: Hasina

The Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, said that Muammar al-Gaddafi, the Libyan leader has given the protection to the murderers of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is experiencing his own case.

Addressing a discussion meeting, said Muammar al-Gaddafi in 1996 wrote a letter calling the Mujib to forgive - Faruk and Rashid murderer.

' Gaddafi in his letter cited a quote from the Koran. Also, I answered him with some other Quran... I said that if I would not attempt to bring the murderers, right not I will perform my duty as a daughter of a father ' Hasina said.

Chhatra League organized the discussion about the killing of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and national day of mourning commemorating Bangladesh.

Hasina said, if the greatest Bengali of all time, Sheikh Mujib, began to rebuild the country, after independence, the defeated force him together with the most members of his family on 15 August 1975 killed.

"In a night, those of us who lost the two sisters had each of our family, including father, mother and brothers," she said in an emotion, voice choked.

The Prime Minister said after the assassination of Mujib, the military dictators did work for the development of the masses people; Rather, it has been to accumulate wealth and property.

She said: ' Ziaur Rahman closed the path the murderers try with the adoption of the compensation regulation. He had also rehabilitated the murderer and war criminal by the creation of jobs to them. "

Ms. Khaleda Zia Zia said the process of rehabilitation of the killers of Mujib as they they MPs, Hasina.

She said that General Ershad also tried murderers Farouk, which he is a candidate for the Office of President to rehabilitate.

The Prime Minister said that the power not to stop defeat conspiracy also after independence; Rather the evil force was people by killing freedom fighter actively, to the masses, to thwart Awami League MPs and other patriotic.

"But the force defeat could people not frustrate, such as strong belief in Bangabandhu."

The trust of the people of Mujib shake struck the biggest blow the murderers by the killing of Sheikh Mujib and his family, she said.

Hasina calls filled with the spirit of patriotism and self-sacrifice all leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League building their lives.

"If you want to stay with Chhatra League, you have to have a compromise spirit." They have to work for the welfare of the people, "she said."

She added: "personal interests and profit can be the target of a student leader or politician of the Awami League and its associated organizations." Father of the nation sacrificed everything to achieve the independence of the country. "

The Prime Minister said that the people of Bangladesh are so unhappy that do not have their own Government for a long time.

"In 1996, people at first understood that Government money that would help them." After 1975, it was in 1996, when people first started, hope for the development of the country in the dreams and spirit of the war in 1971, "she said."

Hasina called the youth community, including the Chhatra League workers warning against falsification of the history of the country's independence.

Under the chairmanship of President Badiuzzaman Sohag Chhatra League, the discussion of Abul Barakat, Abul Kashem and Hamida Banu is addressed.

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Libyan rebels control Tripoli airport

Libyan rebels said she had complete control of the airport of Tripoli on Saturday and had feared a disabled but still nearby district of Muammar al-Gaddafi's troops isolated snipers at the airfield.

' We control airport complete ', said rebel commander Bashir al Taibi.

Rebels said that they had taken district after a "clean-Up" around the international airport, the Qasr Ben Gheshir that tomorrow to oust remaining loyalist troops anchored nearby.

They added that they were still cautious after loyalist troops fired rockets and mortar rounds, which destroyed three civilian aircraft on the tarmac,.

At the roundabout in Qasr Ben Gheshir, a cheering crowds celebrated the district 'Liberation' sing 'Hey, hey hey, Gaddafi way, is forever', said an AFP correspondent.

' Last night (Friday), approx. 60-80 cars the battalion of Khamis Al-Qadhafi, "one of the fugitive dictator sons, moved and" fled to Bani Walid, "A city of Sirte, Gaddafi hometown, said Mokhtar Lakhtar, who commanded the operation."

"It a tactical withdrawal, but really a flight was," he added.

Many in the area confirmed the departure of the convoy of vehicles with Gaddafi Loyalists, say that they include passenger vehicles and "Pick-ups with heavy weapons."

She said two people had seen a few large rockets, they are going with the convoy, as Scuds, but the rebels has not confirming.

Rebel fighters raised their rifles into the air, with rattle, sometimes interrupted by a burst of anti-aircraft fire.

In the Centre of the roundabout some residents sacrificed a sheep in a Muslim gesture of celebration.

"We have been released today!" I sacrificed a sheep, and victims I become an other morning, when Gaddafi is caught, "said Saleh Belhaj, 42."

Close to the airport was under rebel control and serenity.

Taibi said that Pro-Gaddafi had raised forces on Friday, rockets and mortars at the airport, destroyed three civilian aircraft and several other harmful. "they targeted specifically the plane", he said.

Charred body of the planes were visible on the asphalt and rebels still nervous is outdoors, fearful of isolated snipers.

In the meantime, the leader of Mustafa Ahmed Jalil promised Saturday Gaddafi and officials of his regime a fair trial would be given.

The head of the Council said 'we demand Muammar al-Gaddafi and his associates to surrender, so we can protect them and get rid of illegal execution,' national transitional a press conference in Benghazi.

"We guarantee them a fair trial, what ever their position," he said.

Of the International Criminal Court, the charges against Gaddafi, his son, Seif al-Islam and his asked Intelligence Chief, said Jalil ICC Libyan justice complement.

The ICC dealt with serious cases where the courts of the country, the defendant will act or not.

"We have issued the appeal after appeal for displayed will be that we protect it and that they be tried", Jalil said. ' Those that fear and respond not only for their own security be.'

The rebels have offered dead or alive reward for Gaddafi capture, $1.7 million dollars.

Jalil added that officials of the Gaddafi regime, which have not their support for the rebellion are risking voice not their lives or citizenship, but they no political role in the new Libya.

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Where are the values gone?

It is a matter of great shame that we not more embarrassing to indulge, misconduct and misdeeds of individual items. It has now become inevitable a job of any kind on bribery, nepotism, manipulation and endless unfair means. We are greedy and the ethical concepts tend blatant disregard for money in a way possible. We are now oblivious to social values, standards and common labels and more honesty and integrity, especially during so individual tasks on our respective positions.

Teachers in each school are now under vigilance by parents, primarily as a result of the incident Viqarunnisa hours a day school and College, Dhaka. Parents Express now send concern about their daughters as their opinion with doubts are subject to educational institutions. It is become occur hard very shameful parents to peace for girls after the. Beyond reasonable doubt, it will take an indefinite period to back the precious faith in the minds of the parents.

Sky could other issues during the month of Ramadan, despite many attempts by the Government and the abundance of the protests, not retained through print and electronic media, mainly because of the predatory unscrupulous traders soaring prices of essentials. It is, suffice it to say that only mindless people may require mindless prices. Thousands of merchants follow unfair means to make money, is driving people to endless suffering and endanger their precious lives. Fruit and fish traders make money with dangerous formalin on the products. Ensure not proper clean restaurants and hotels.

On the other hand, people are venting, by killing innocent men without checking if they are guilty of all crimes their anger. Some people can beat the mob to murder in the name are plotting. News reports about suicide have displayed continuously, was because demand could not be stopped not for dowry and marital misconduct. Women and children are still prone to wandering, sexual harassment and violence, murder and repression.

Ethics is far away in our nation for a long time. We hide the guilt and our own mistakes others; We don't want to protest against oppression, but want justice; We enrichment and our interests at the expense of the other search the. We are talking about fair means to accept but unfair means, remind other ethics but they forget us. So we expected first before others us change change better. We want to live happily together in a society, where morale is practiced. We make it together possible.

Hasnat

American international

University-Bangladesh

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Zahid plays different characters in oath

Zahid Hasan

Zahid Hasan fans will get another taste of their favorite actor performance in the upcoming Eid.  The powerful actor, which the single episode Zahid Hasan will perform in various interesting characters in four, playing oath and a tele-film are be broadcast on various TV channels.

Zahid Hasan appears as the celebrity in the comedy of errors Jonoiko Zahid Hasan, the RTV in Eid special programme air.

After entertainment the audience with three sequels by Arman Bhai on previous occasions of Eid, Zahid Hasan plays the titular character of the Arman Bhai for the fourth time in this oath, the air of Banga-vision.

"The game revolves around various humorous events, which happened with Arman, his wife and his neighbors." Performing in the play was a very good experience,' Zahid said in a talk with new age. Tisha is the co-actor by Zahid Hasan in this game the in Bangla vision on the third day of Eid to 20: 00 et is.

The actor plays two characters in the tele-film titled Jonoiko Zahid Hasan. Zahid further said, "The game features a man who sees TV actor Zahid Hasan alike." To use his portrayal, which man claims itself as the TV star, and many interesting incidents occur. At a time, the man who meets original Zahid Hasan.' The film will be on RTV on the fifth day of the Eid at 14: 15 et.

On only on five plays in this oath Zahid in Saudi Arabia Omrah has during Ramadan, run, when making the most of the tracks for oath.

"I was only a few single episode TV plays oath." I closed the tasks before I left for Umrah. So, my schedule with many projects in this oath is not overloaded, said Zahid."

Also, Zahid is also Director of accredited and the industry with hit series like Lal Neel Beguni, Eka, Kuthuri choir and others. Directed by: Zahid, is mega-serial Haater Rekha Kotha Bole ATN Bangla and already the waves emitted.

Zahid, who won also applause as a screen actor, was recently in a feature film with the title Projapoti is to be released yet. Director: Kamal Mostafa-Raj, are Mousumi and Mosharraf Karim the co-stars of Zahid in the film.

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War crimes: Alim is in his house respondents

NARASINGDI: a train set fire to the murder of the local mayor, Lokman Hossain excited people on Wednesday.    Independent photo see details

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ICT has Sayedee the cause of action against ICT Chief

NARASINGDI: a train set fire to the murder of the local mayor, Lokman Hossain excited people on Wednesday.    Independent photo see details

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Sales Summit CTG markets last days before Eid

Chittagong city shops are the masses, their doing last-minute shopping with Eid-ul-Fitr is bustling around the corner.

The path stores and the glitzy shopping malls, now from 10 am until þehri, openly held with customers busy in picking things their choice from a sea of articles urged.

Mass increase in the houses sold jewelry, home decor products, Attar, caps, prayer mats and rosaries, items that are purchased only before the Festival.

Buyer on the clothes stores, particularly sold clothes for the middle and low income groups, have increased much in the last few days, as people to markets are streaming, after they have their wages and other payments.

Parents with children on the other looking for the perfect a regular scene in all markets is enthusiastically roaming of a business oath dresses for their small children sell wear such as T-shirt, Salwar-Kameej, trousers, shirts, rock and tops, shorts and the like.

Saris, in comparison to the Indian are produced in the local shops, are more demand in the city this oath, sellers said.

Among the locally produced expensive saris silk, Rajshahi silk produced varieties, jute Katan, Opera Katan of Sapura silk mills, Georgette, and Jamdani sell more than other varieties.

Known fashion boutique houses such as Aarong, Shoilpik, Menz Club, Bengali Babu, lubnan, and proudly, cat's eye, Revlon, Richman, mobile Bazar, Moon Walker and Ramania a better draw customers had on the search after an exclusive oath Cabinet.

Reaz Uddin Bazar, the largest retail market in shoe has its busiest time in the year for several days.

Shoe wholesaler observed, Bata and lace shoes are more in demand than other brands informed during the retailers in that for this Eid Festival was imported footwear from China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Taiwan, and Singapore.

The locally made shoes also was selling well, she said.

The city's markets favor the wealthy and the middle income group 14 centres and shopping centres, namely Sanmar Ocean City, Afmi Plaza, Mimi supermarket, new market, Ameen Centre, Akhtaruzzaman Center, Younosco Centre, Central Plaza, Lucky Plaza, Chittagong shopping complex, Bay shopping, VIP shopping, Guljar Tower and Mati Tower.

Terry Bazar, Reaz Uddin hawkers market Bazaar and Jahur are also under the preferred shopping spots of the middle class.

NiedriglohnempfSngern people visit the makeshift shops in or near new market, Bahadderhat, GEC crossing, CEPZ, number 2 gate market and Reaz Uddin Bazar.

Women and children wear, including saris, Salwar-Kameej-Orna, cosmetics, jewellery, T-shirts, t-Shirts, shorts, full pants, Panjabi and pajamas and shoes are better than men's clothing, sold seller said, adding that sales increased as Festival day approached.

Mohammad SAGIR, President, new market merchant Welfare Association, said, there was the shops no fixed time for the shutdown until the Chandrait, the hours before Eid tomorrow, so many people prefers purchases late at night, as traffic had subsided.

He expressed also satisfaction with the comparatively low rate during Ramadan in the city, which he said the attack encouraged people to do their shopping at night.

' Sales rose as the first couple of days during Ramadan. People are casting, "said a happy Mohammad Al-Amin, working for Chittagong shopping complex." in the shops as they have their salaries and payments,

Ariful Islam Sohel, to buy clothes for his family, was the market flooded with the Chinese shoes, Indian clothing and foreign rather unhappy.

' With so many people who buy so many types of things during the oath, our economy much more benefits if at least most of could the elements were local,' he thought.

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WikiLeaks WINS Australian journalism award

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SYDNEY, Australia: WikiLeaks in Australia for his "outstanding contribution to journalism" been recognized, with founder Julian Assange unlatch in "cowardly" Prime Minister Julia Gillard in an acceptance speech.

The anti-secrecy site was at the annual Walkley Awards, praised where elected winner by an independent jury of journalists and photographers cable us for her courageous reporting on secret.

"WikiLeaks applied new technology to the inner workings of the Government to reveal an avalanche of uncomfortable truths in a global release to penetrate coup d ' état," said the Board of Trustees of Walkley in bestowing the award Sunday night.

"His revelations to diplomatic Bastardry, high-level horse-trading and interference in the internal affairs of Nations, of a kind, as, which has led the war on terror have had an undeniable influence."

Reporting abuses website has on the world to Washington's acute embarrassment leaders show us diplomats often open where, thousands of cable released.

Assange, an Australian citizen, before Canberra has blown up, for it not enough to protect him in the consequences of the leaks, was by the Government in accepting the award in a pre-recorded video message snappy.

"The Government Gillard has shown that its true colors in relation to how it is dealt with pressure of United States on WikiLeaks," he said broadcast of the awards in footage on SBS TV displays.

"Australian journalists are brave, the Australian population is supportive, but Julia Gillard is a fig Australian Prime Minister."

"As we do not despair is valid as long as we can talk as long as we can publish, and as long as the Internet free remains, we are to resist Australian armed with the truth," he added.

Assange spent much in the past year under house arrest in the United Kingdom since leaving in December 2010, the claims of rape and held sexual violence which was made of two women in Sweden.

He strongly denied the accusations against him, claiming they are politically motivated and in the context of the activity of WikiLeaks.

The former computer hacker is a decision against his extradition to Sweden against charges appealing.

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Speaker, MPs now under taxable income

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OMS closure defies ground reality

It is indeed worrying that the Government has decided the operation of the open market sale outlets for five days Eid holiday, planned to on 30 August start and end to the 3. According to a report in the new age on Sunday published the relevant decision has dismay among the people as a whole, depending on the market sale of rice, apparently at the cheaper price compared to the markets, this seemingly causes flock to the OMS outlets in various parts of the capital Dhaka on Saturday. On the other hand, many traders have closed apparently its sales offices all over before the scheduled time like their inventories, and one whole set of people after waiting in long lines for hours with empty pockets return. Overall all these supposedly some people in concern of the closure of the OMS outputs have passed "forever".

With the rise in prices for key raw materials, which include the brackets, the Awami League Jatiyo party Government continued the business of "open market sale" to rice at TK 24 a kg last year sale by truck to the capital in December, which was later extended to district, shortly and Union levels by distributors. Such an initiative, the important officials of the Ministry declared food, together with the Minister itself, on more occasions than one, aimed at reducing the price of rice on the markets on the one hand and give some rest to the low-income groups in particular, on the other. Meanwhile, as people have these layers spend over 60 percent of their income on food, as well as costs rough rice TK 35 to 40 in markets, they have no options but to go to the OMS outlets, although the rice, which sold there in General is reportedly of poor quality. What is worse, thanks to the incumbent, in particular the low-income groups, led consecutive decisions on hike in fuel prices, the further rise in the prices of all kinds of transports and thus substantial prices, in General, people had to tighten their belts further in recent months. Needless to say, in these circumstances according to media reports, queues in the OMS outlets longer has since become.

In other words, it is lack of understanding of the reality on the ground, if the Government decides to hold closed for even a single day, these dependent on it to starve the operation of OMS, could result in at least for this day. The Government needs to recognize that it already failed to keep prices of Essentials within reach of people about the layers, in this context, which is a violation of his constitutional obligation, in addition to his campaign promise. It has relaxed no effective and lasting operation of the OMS sockets to feel, and so the decision in question should immediately revoke.

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Change of temperature unlikely

Light to moderate rain or Thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty winds is probably in a few places of Khulna, Barisal and Chittagong and in one or two places about Rajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions until 18: 00 today.

Daily across the country can remain almost unchanged, met Office said.

The Sun is in the capital today at 18: 20 and rises tomorrow at 05: 40.

Included the country's high, 35, 4 degrees Celsius, and in the lowest 24.7 degree of Srimangal and divisions on Sunday.

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Indian Parliament accepts Anna's requirements

Surrounded by a sea of flags, Anna Hazare delivers the message, that his three conditions accepted by the Lok Sabha. However, there was no vote, as had demanded Anna's associates. Instead, the Lok Sabha, unanimously reports a "sense of the House ' Anna's requirements, said Pranab Mukherjee, NDTV on Saturday the head of the House."

Team Anna still on his reaction. It was earlier said that Anna at 10 am would break his fast Sunday morning. Now he has lost the day 12, 7.5 kg; Doctors say that she are seriously concerned about his health.

In the thousands in anticipation of the 74-year old gathered his protest camp on Ramlila Maidan in Delhi and its role in supporting the India take a big step forward in the direction of a historic new anti-corruption law.

His vision of a new agency - the Lokpal or an Ombudsman Committee - in principle was approved after a debate in both houses of Parliament. The Lokpal investigated allegations of corruption against officials.

Opposition leaders in Parliament Sushma Swaraj and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, the fact that nine times, was the Lokpal law in the Parliament but was not enforced. "I accept the end of our Governments," Mukherjee said at the end of the debate. However, he strengthened his party line: "it can be a piece of legislation, however strong and empowered, corruption can not fully eradicate.'" Mukherjee also warned, "there is a difference between Mobocracy and democracy." The Hazare methods are by many, including Rahul Gandhi, on the Lokpal in the Lok Sabha on Friday criticized a rare speech been.

So that parties have signed off Anna's trio Essentials: the Lokpal model is introduced in States; Junior bureaucrats will be there to accountable; Citizens charters appears in all government offices, and publicly displays the to this Division of tasks. These features have been accepted in principle; You will be verified now by a Permanent Parliamentary Committee also, verified their compatibility with the Constitution. The Committee then send the invoice with detailed feedback back to the Parliament for examination.

The hours before the Lok Sabha and the Rajya Saba for Anna's three must-haves which are characteristic of the last few days were voted with the tension negotiations between his group of activists, and the Government was soaked. The Lokpal debate was initiated by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Lok Sabha. Leader Sushma Swaraj talk a number of impressive followed, crowned by the BJP. 'Let us show the country, that its agents can work well and lead a healthy and mature political debate free of party-political dispute,' she asks.

Since last night, the Government on a plan worked precisely calibrated, find a way, Anna meet without Parliament and its right to legislate. Chief Minister consulted Anna's employees and the opposition last night and today again tomorrow. But from 15: 00 the plan has, as it so often in recent days, to disintegrate.

Anna's associates, who arrived in Parliament while the Lokpal was discussion in progress, said it was also said that instead of a resolution to give Parliament a statement 'Sense of the House.' would spend you said, except that a vote in both houses, was the business.

"If no solution or happens not vote and that is the answer to Anna Hazare then write it very regrettable, is", Anna's aide, Prashant Bhushan said. "It is a clear case of betrayal," said another Member of Anna's inner circle, Arvind Kejriwal.

The Prime Minister then met with senior Ministers and the BJP Sushma Swaraj and LK Advani.  The close coordination between the Government and the opposition Saturday was impressive. The BJP would announced that it will agree to a vote; the Government soon followed.

While the debate both led the Lok Sabha in the Rajya Sabha, was the Ramlila Maidan fill. In the afternoon raised actor Aamir Khan the audience and asks Anna to stop his fast. He was also a song of his hit film Lagaan. ' We have thanks to Anna, that this law and the question of corruption in the limelight.' He stressed "We must decide, how we live our lives..." We will give or bribes? Are we say no to the corruption in our life?'

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Construction blocked entrance almost DMCH

Patients have serious problems in incoming or outgoing Dhaka Medical College Hospital for about two years as an emergency gate faced been or construction of Asad Memorial Museum, the main entrance remains almost blocked.

Emergency patients are forced, that hospital by a narrow alternative type.

The main road on the DMCH was closed due to construction work.

Ambulances can enter the hospital only through the emergency entrance.

Ambulances blocked before the main entrance used to patients with it virtually round the clock was.

Include the area between Chandkharpul and the emergency entrance to the first hospital with corrugated iron it become, a haven for hijackers and drug peddlers, DMCH officials said.

"Emergency and burn patients were serious problem getting into the hospital as the only entrance to the units have remain blocked,' DMCH said Director Shahidul Haque Mallik."

On average, he said, every day you are looking for 500 treatment or admission to DMCH emergency during the Hospital burn unit receive 300 patients.   He said that neither in Dhaka City Corporation in Dhaka University heard authorities DMCH before you close the main entrance for the work.

Atul said, blocked the street in front of the hospital led to overcrowding input DMCH input from patients and their companions hinder emergency.

He said that it relieved also increased steal, robbery, drugs, which peddled at blocked area.

Atul said, that a pedicab stand within the limit of hospital, to take advantage of the situation.

20., January 2008 Mayor of Dhaka Sadeque Hossain Khoka, and then Dhaka University had placed entrance of DMCH Vice-Chancellor SMA Fayiz the cornerstone of Shaheed Asad Smarani and Asad Museum at emergency.

Death of Dhaka University student leader Asaduzzaman, shot by the police on 20 January 1969 in front of today's State of emergency, the DMCH input the turning point in the mass movement was brought to an end, the Ayub rule.

The site administrator anwer Hossain said, that pushing work were to complete, but due to the rains pile integrity test can be done not now.

He said the design of Shaheed Asad Memorial and Museum had changed several times are, the more time to complete the work.

Another factor that the extension in completing the work costs was, said he, telephone cable, laying sewer pipe underground moved.

Dhaka City Corporation, said the head of the machinery of Abul Hossain, the dry season for pile integrity test waited.

He said however, that he was not able to say when the City Corporation is able to complete the work.

There is no poster on the site to the other parties if two companies, Mahbub and brothers and Khan and sons do it.

No design of the Museum will be shown either on the site.

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Many left OMS sockets without rice

People crowd an open market sales office, at Shewrapara in Dhaka, to buy rice on Saturday. -Sanaul Haque

Govt OMS suspend rice sale for 4 day Eid holiday

People with low income group urged the open market of sales outlets to buy rice because the authorities have decided to keep for the four days of Eid holiday closed the outlets on Saturday.

Many of them several hours in long queues at the sales points in Rampura, Kazipara, Shantinagar, Begunbari waited, but no rice as the dealer links the place to buy, if much before the scheduled ran their shares.

Rasheda, a home help, rice for their family of OMS shop nearest Karwan Bazaar rail gate, buys, one of those was to go home without any rice had.

"I again tomorrow for rice to come, because the prices in the bazaars are too high," she said new age unfortunately on Saturday. Rough rice costs between TK-38 and TK 40 per kg in the markets, she said what she can do.

A kilogram is sold OMS rice for TK-24, but a person may buy not more than 5 kg per day.

Siraj Khan, a trader in Karwan Bazaar, said that she should keep the outlet open from 09: 00 to 16: 00, but had at 12: 30 on Saturday closed, when the stock was completed.

Each output is assigned just 60 bags of rice per day (30 kg in each bag).

Many consumers asked whether the OMS outlets would be closed forever, he said.

Garment factory workers Tohura, the rice from the outlet Bou buys Bazaar in West Panthapath, said that they were waiting in the queue for about an hour and 45 minutes, from 10: 00 "I don't know whether I all rice today get, because there are eight people in me," she said.

The rice from the OMS branches keep them alive, as the prices for all other food capacity rose by about their shopping, she said.

Alam, who buys rice from the OMS-shop in Moghbazar Ambagan, was very unhappy, because he too late to get rice to all.

He said that he buys usually rice from this shop for his eight-member family, as the OMS price is the cheapest.

Every day, buy some 1,50,000 rice OMS Sockets in Dhaka, said Sukumar Chandra Roy, Chief Controller of rationing in Dhaka.

He said that the OMS Sockets were planned for the Eid holiday from August 29 until September 3 remain closed.

Food Minister Abdur Razzaque visited some outlets in Dhaka City on Saturday, and after observing the enormous demand for OMS rice, the Directorate of food is asked to open the ports on Tuesday. He added that part of the OMS programme, to the increasing demand would increase after Eid of the Government.

The Director-General of the Directorate of food, Ahmad Hossain, new age said that they have decided to keep open OMS outlets on Tuesday because of banking transactions, and said that after Eid she would increase the allocation of rice to OMS branches due to demand.

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Palestinians see progress in the EU stance on UN offer

A senior official said the Palestinian leadership to its plan for the membership next month looking for "Progress" in position which sees the European Union, the PLO on Sunday.

"There is progress in the European attitude and a willingness to coordinate with the Palestinian leadership on the nature of the resolution that we are looking for," said PLO Secretary General Yasser Abed Rabbo met a day after President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah with EU foreign policy Chief Catherine Ashton.

In the Centre of discussions in the West Bank city, the Palestinian plan to seek full membership in the United Nations, was when the General Assembly despite Israeli and opposition meet us next month in New York.

"We will inform you about every move and we surprised them with something not," said Abed Rabbo.

He said "We seen progress in the European position, have the in through the willingness of the EU, about the steps go PLO is to coordinate United Nations".

Ashton arrived in the region on Saturday for a three-day visit to the Israel and the Palestinians are pushing to resume direct negotiations hold since September in an insoluble problem of Jewish settlement building.

In talks with Abbas on Saturday night, Ashton said that the EU position would depend on, are presented on the wording on 20 September, Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat who said Palestinian proposal UN chief Ban Ki-moon.

Abbas told her that the European support for the deal was crucial to protect the peace process, Erakat said.

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UN-vow terrorism fighting

World body headquarters in Nigeria, which show at least 23 dead links before the first-hand the destruction on Sunday vowed a renewed fight against terrorism following a suicide on the UN Deputy Chief.

The Deputy UN Secretary General Asha-Rose Migiro wreaths on the UN compound in Africa most populous nation set and made their way past crushed debris and saw blood, staining during their tour of the building.

"It is a shocking incident," she said afterwards. ' This is against global peace. It is also against humanity, because those who work here come from different countries.'

Friday attack, which saw the bomber to make his way through two gates on the heavily guarded site before struck his car at the entrance of the building under the bloody UN alignment was worldwide.

'We it but will this Act of terrorism in the strongest terms, only Rekindle of our determination condemn terrorism in all its effects,' said Migiro journalists after arriving late Saturday.

Their journey was, increased the number of casualties and deepened the investigation of the bombing in Abuja with FBI agents from the United States and the UN head of security in the country.

UN spokesman of Martin Dawes said that the toll now 23 with 81 was wounded. Some 400 people with a variety of nationalities working in the UN building.

Migiro was also the national hospital with some of the wounded, then meet President Goodluck Jonathan, and staff speak to the United Nations later in the day visit.

Type questions, on the management of the bomber, two goals in the track happen close the connection as well as over, was the responsible for the explosion in Europe's largest oil producer.

An a spokesman of the Nigerian Islamist sect, known as Boko Haram is responsible for the attack, but it has no evidence and police say that they consider all options.

Analysts have pointed out that during at least a fraction of the sect in the Act can be introduced, it was all too early

firm conclusions.

Boko Haram so far focuses on symbols of the Nigerian authorities, but his attacks have grown more sophisticated and have growing concerns about whether it has made links with al Qaeda North African Branch or other extremist groups.

The United Nations had said nine people were confirmed dead and "Many dozen hospital admitted", but it still was the toll, that is not non-UN personnel, such as security and visitors warned.

"We motivated, bright, selfless people working only for probably by Nigeria and the world, have lost," said Agathe Lawson, Coordinator in Nigeria be resident of the United Nations.

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Guinea-Bissau Govt are shuffled, PM keeps job

Guinea-Bissau President Malam Bacai Sanhá mixed his Government to keep his Prime Minister on Saturday, but moving the heads of nine ministries of the country according to a decree of the President.

Opposition parties had several rallies in recent weeks calling for Sanhá sack Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior, but seems that the President is anxious to extend a run of relative stability after years of chaos in the tiny west African State.

New Government include Baciro Dja, that long as Secretary of Defense, the prickly issue of the reform an army with a history of interference in the politics and recently to monitor involvement in the cocaine trade.

Helena Nosolini Embalo remains Economics Minister.

Gomes Junior has been in Office for three years, for the former Portuguese colony, which has experienced little, but in conflict and coups since independence.

The country saw its President and head of the army murdered in 2009, and last year accused a revolt in the military put groups of working with Latin America drug cartels in free of charge.

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Oath to FM radio channels

The radio stations of the country's preparations for the upcoming Eid Festival with great enthusiasm by arrange of various special programs that are from the day before Eid day, and on the third day of the Festival to celebrate.

A drama, with Tishma, Mimi, Mahmoud Shahin and Shafiq Tuhin formalin-Prem is at 11: 00 on the day of Eid on radio today et. Two comedy shows Fuska chat, took by Saju Khadem and Ruby; and back to back, failed the RJs and producer of radio is broadcast today, or 14: 00 and 17: 00 on the day Eid. A musical show Gaane Gaane oath Adda with songs by Fahmida Nabi at 22: 00 on the same day et will.

The following day comedy show oath comedy with Shahin, by RJ Shahin anchored; Debate, by RJ Shayer, Shabbir and VJ Alif, Tanisha show anchored debate oath; and a musical show entitled volume appears is broadcast at 10: 00, 14: 00 and 22: 00 or.

Radio Amar arranged also four day Eid celebration program, which will begin broadcasting a three-hour musical programme Eider Chand at 20: 00 in the night before Eid. Musical programs Mishti Mukh, off-air, music Juke, Eid special rock and gaan and fun on Eid day transmitted.

On the second day of the Festival special programs of radio Amar be uncut news, road on air, Eid Eid special Jolsha and Eid special me talk with, among others.

Amar radio listeners have the opportunity to interact with prominent through several live programs. Singer Balam wil be in Eid special Tarar Mela on 10: 00; Bappa Mazumdar in oath junction at the 13: 00; Fahmida Nabi in Eid special Gaaner Golpo to 16: 00; and Tahsan and Mithila in Aamar Bhalobasha at 20: 00.

Radio ABC arranged also five days special programme for the upcoming Eid. A number of program of Rupali Anondo Dhaliwood songs and news is broadcast at 12: 00. Movie star dry with his wife; and national film award winning few Popy Chanchal is available on the second and third day of the program be. Pran mango juice Studio live show is aired every day at 23: 00 be. Popular bands Shironaamhin, cream domestic-X, Carnival, urban fiction, Shunno, Parthib, cryptic fate and D-lighting will be on the program on different days do.

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Unofficial holidays are threatening health care

Health care in the city of Barisal witnesses a sudden downturn, hospitals, public and private, unofficial Eid holidays went on Friday.

Medical College Hospital serious problems like most are patients at the Barisal Sher-e-Bangla, which went to the doctors and nurses on holiday.

On Sunday, the hospital data show that only 105 of 708 employees at work, including emergency ward for patients.

Patients complained that a good number of patients had released the hospital authorities, which were not fully healed in the last few days on the pressure to escape.

Hospital Director Abdur Rashid, was, however, that the patients generally adequate attention during the Eid holidays.

He was also suffering in the free patient and said, that it also for her difficult health indoor patients was provide quality during the holidays.

"We can deny right to holidays on religious feasts not the employees,", said Abdur Rashid.

He said "normally more than to go 1,200 patients under treatment in indoor wards of this 500 beds hospital every day, but today there are some more than 800," while he with new age on Sunday.

'The staff shortage affects not healthcare' he expressed to his hope.

The Director of SBMCH said "private hospitals have made special, but very limited agreement as public hospitals, services for patients and always try, refer patients to us,".

A private hospital Manager Nazrul Islam said that the consultants do no longer dismissed surgery and their patients.

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AG defends police

Attorney General Mahbubey Alam on Saturday defended the police, who say that they had tried to the life of the late former Deputy Attorney General, Momtaj Uddin Ahmed, on 11 August, by you, immediately after he began some him complaining of chest pain in the hospital to save time after his arrest.

He also said that the opposition Bangladesh tried nationalist party politics with Ahmed of the corpse to do by you accuse the police torturing Ahmed soon after his arrest, which caused his death.

'I have come that MU Ahmed, that heart attack, survived as she had brought him to the hospital, began as a pain in his heart know after talking with the police,' Mahbubey Alam told reporters in an impromptu press conference at his Government residence in Minto on the road.

He called the briefing, clear its position on the note of the President of the bar of the Supreme Court, Khandker Mahbub Hossain, told reporters on Friday had the Mahbubey Alam square hospitals affect the Executive Magistrate and the police in the preparation of the report on the investigation of Ahmed's bead body was gone.

The AG had stayed there when the examination will be continued was and no one was allowed to it, not even Ahmed family witnesses.

'We suspect that he dictated the report, and ensured that there was no mention of the brands of electric shocks on MU Ahmed body,' Mahbub Hossain added.

Mahbubey Alam said that Mahbub Hossain, had resorted to "Lie" to reap political gains by those comments.

"I went to the hospital, as a former SCBA leader and Attorney General to see Ahmed body." But when I visited some pro-BNP lawyers, together with outsiders, bad words thrown me and sang motto against me at the entrance of the hospital, "said Mahbubey Alam.""I am angry and hurt on his comment."

Mahbubey also said that he had seen no one next to Ahmed body, was in the hospital.

Ahmed, who was hospitalized on 16 August in the hospital, was breathing on his last at 13: 10 on Friday. Before the bar square hospitals, he was handling at the National Institute cardiovascular disease.

Hours after his arrest on the 11 Ahmed ill in the Office of the detective branch and was taken to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital, but doctors there him according to the NICVD.

'If he really was tortured, why the BNP lawyers do not require investigation into the matter at this time?' asked Mahbubey.

He also said that to check it after the Ahmed medical report whether he tortured to death in police custody or died of heart attack might be known.

Reply to a query on whether Ahmed was in police custody or not in his death, Mahbubey replied obliquely, "but not in the process involved I, can you say did the police statement is not incredible."

Brought about the murder case of Ahmed of women against him and other Mahbubey said, "I got involved in the case to harass me and undue pressure put on me."

He was also the BNP claim that Ahmed in ' wrong ' was arrested. "There is no room to say now that the case was wrong, as the Court for the chaos created the Pro-BNP lawyers themselves of them in a courtroom on August 2 apologized, after the judge BNP Chairman Khaleda Zia warned to make snide and disrespectful statements about the Constitution."

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Suicide attack on the foreign base in Afghanistan

A team of Taliban suicide attacker on a US-led NATO reconstruction team in unstable southern of Afghanistan met Sunday, officials said.

The attack struck the provincial reconstruction team in Kalat, the capital of Zabul. First reports suggested that a few people were injured.

PRTS are typically joint military and civilian operations, the work on trying to build of the capacity of the Afghan Government in a province. There are approximately 28 of which a total of Afghanistan.

The Deputy Governor of Zabul, Mohammad Jan Rasoulyar, said that the incident is now over.

' I can confirm that a group of Taliban attackers, some of them suicide attacker who led attacks on the PRT as also police headquarters. It has a large explosion near the PRT Office ", said Rasoulyar."

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Mel Gibson, Oksana Grigorieva rules child custody

Mel Gibson and his ex-girlfriend on Friday a very bitter custody dispute was over her little daughter plea led no contest to domestic violence to the Oscar-winner this year carried out.

Los Angeles Superior Court said in a statement agreement was complete and conditions can be heard on March 31. A spokesman for the Director of "Braveheart" confirmed that the parties had settled.

'We appreciate help, the judge', said the spokesman in a statement.

It was not immediately clear whether the custody deal between Gibson and Oksana Grigorieva of her daughter Lucia settled all legal problems between the two. Next comment declined Gibson's spokesman.

Gibson and Grigorieva had a long-running relationship, which involved the dissolution of the marriage and the birth of her daughter, but it started to unravel in the spring of 2010. Grigorieva claimed Gibson beat her and broke her teeth into a heated argument in January of this year.

In March approved 'Passion of the Christ' Director of a judge that he he was in for the safety of Lucia Grigorieva with an open hand during argument suggested. He pleaded no contest - the equivalent of guilty - and was sentenced to three years on probation.

Gibson has claimed that Grigorieva is trying to extort money from him about a reported $20 million settlement by their resolution through a series of cassettes of insults and a racist insults, they hurled over the phone. It turned down prosecutors to calculate them in this matter.

The tapes, celebrity website Radaronline.com, last year most damaged Gibson's career. Left of him, Manager, a film's release was delayed, and others refused to work with him.

Roughly Gibson in a television interview said a month later, that he considered the leak of phone calls to the media as ' personal Verrat.

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People cry South West region beset for food

A man builds a range of banana tree trunks for travel in the flooded Kanaidia at Tala in Satkhira on Saturday. -New-age-photo

Thirty-five-year-old Monwara Begum had to steal vegetables from other farmland in the vicinity of his home shelter to her husband and only son feed, as her family has no other way, to collect food.

Out of his house, which reduced about three weeks in the most affected Kanaidia Tala in Satkhira, which flood was flooded because of Flash, took the family protection in the Rathkhola girls' high school house shelter.

(Because of heavy rainfall and flooding accompanied, 8,26,124 people 1,95,562 families affected in 66 unions and two communities of six comprehensive within where 528 km of the road routes - 144 km road stretch and 384 km dirt road metalled) - were destroyed and 1,018 km of the road routes - 280 km of paved road and 738 kilometers were the dirt road - corrupt., the District Office said the relief.

"I could no other way but not green vegetables from farmland of others steal, as we have, to satisfy our hunger", said Monwara new age.

"they [local government officials and non-governmental organizations] will provide us with rice, which is almost less than a third of our claim and often we have to die of starvation," she said.

She said that her family had received only seven kilograms of rice, after he had taken refuge in the school and her husband, pulls a rickshaw van and works as a day laborer, could not earn, as had the sections one covers very few street water of rickshaw-vans could van drives.

There are also no other jobs available, as the neighboring villages are still under water, added to them.

Like the Monwara, 69 other families, including the Jalalpur union member of Sakhina Begum, in the House shelter stay.

Another woman, Marufa Begum, aged about 40, wife of Minaj Uddin, who in the same House shelter, said that House shelter had almost all families in which to feed the families. "If we need to get more vegetables, we less rice food."

She said that she often switch and even threatened to steal from the owners of agricultural land for vegetables.

Union Member said Sakhina that they could people with rice, much less than the demand and added that the people in the shelter sometimes might House 'gather green vegetables' from farmland owned by others.

"Forty-year-old civilian Begum, who is refuge in another House of the Government of Kanaidia primary school, said that they eat Curry with Arum scroll ' collected from the land of other people", in areas less still available are flooded prepared. The House shelter has 34 families in six rooms.

' We often walk way, if we can see owners who visit their farmland. Some of them even Chase us, "she said, she added that she was often starving from lack of food had."

"We get rice sometimes, even if the amount is not sufficient." But how can we eat them without Curry,' said Mir Ekram Ali, 60, who remains in that House shelter.

The situation is worse for Rahima Khatun, 55-year-old widow of Binerpota in which the protection on the road Binirpota-Rajnagar-WDB had taken over district headquarters.

"I have no way to collect all the vegetables from the nearby villages, as all all of them were under water." I have only three kilograms of rice in about three weeks ' Rahima said.

She said they fast on Saturday to keep by eating rice with red chilli and broke fast with water only.

A number of people on the road had undertaken protection of Kashimnagar and Ghoshnagar of the Paikgachha in Khulna and in Rajendrapur, Nalta, Khalilnagar and Gonali at Tala in Satkhira Khulna-Paikgachha, Kapasdanga, Ashanagar and Nagarghata Tala and Binirpota in the eponymous on the Khulna-Satkhira Highway several places on the Kanaidia-Jethua road and on the road of Tala Kumira similar stories.

"The situation is much the same way in the homes of protection of and the people who are not sufficient refuge in makeshift houses on highways, streets and high country, as supplies have taken the relief to meet the demand," said Tala shortly Counicl Chairman, Ghosh Sanat Kumar.

Said the District Office of relief, 5.08 km from dam was destroyed and 82 km from dam suffered in the RADIUS, where 288 protection houses have included accommodation to worst-hit 27.816 families.

The official said it had distributed program already 1243 tons of rice in aid, TK of at risk in bar and 410 tonnes under the Government 13,30,000 group feeding.

The Deputy Commissioner, MD Abdus Samad, Satkhira said that they had to get 920 tons of rice, the affected people in the VGF programme. He said that she would offer each of 1000 families in each affected Union with 10 kilograms of rice.

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Hasina-Manmohan talks next week

New Delhi: Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will hold bilateral talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to address 'unfinished' issues during Singh's Dhaka trip earlier this year.

Indian foreign secretary Ranjan Mathai on Saturday confirmed that the meeting would take place on the sidelines of the 17th South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit at the Addu Island in the Maldives next week.

He told journalists in New Delhi that the two prime ministers would review the bilateral relations and discuss ways to boost regional cooperation.

Asked if the two prime ministers could touch upon the thorny bilateral issues like sharing of water of common river Teesta and transit links between mainland India and its northeastern states through Bangladesh, Mathai said that Hasina and Singh could hold discussions on the tasks left 'unfinished' during the latter's tour to Dhaka on Sep 6 and 7.

According to the joint statement issued after the meeting between Singh and Hasina in Dhaka, the two neighbours agreed to work together to further strengthen SAARC, including expanding areas of cooperation, and as partners in achieving the full implementation of all existing projects and agreements of the bloc.

New Delhi and Dhaka had long been negotiating a deal on Teesta and the two countries were about to sign an interim agreement during Singh's visit to Bangladesh.

But West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee's decision not to accompany Singh to Dhaka held the issue back as she differed with India's central government on the Teesta issue, forcing New Delhi to postpone the signing.

Banerjee is understood to have conveyed to the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance government in New Delhi that she would not endorse a deal that would hurt the interests of the people of West Bengal, which is largely dependent on the common river for power generation and irrigation.

Meanwhile, officials with knowledge of the proceedings said that the conclave, which would be attended by the leaders of the eight South Asian nations, would culminate in signing of four agreements covering establishment of a SAARC seed bank, multilateral arrangement on recognition of conformity assessment, rapid response to natural disaster and implementation of regional standards.

The SAARC member states are also expected to adopt a charter of democracy in the summit.

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Moody's cuts debt Japan review

Japanese Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda speaks at a press conference in his Office in Tokyo on Wednesday. : AFP photo

Agence France-Presse. Tokyo

Moody's rating agency Japan's credit rating to a level downgraded Wednesday, blaming the borrowing- and -round-door policy for the delay of the efforts to the world's largest debt to reduce a build.

Downgrade Japan's bond rating to Aa3 from Aa2 came to the nation due to was his sixth new leader in five years, with Prime Minister see that Naoto Kan disasters resign over his handling of the March of 11.

While expected, the decision by Moody's is pressure continue backup to a political leadership accused a recovery from the effects of 11 March earthquake and tsunami, a rising yen and a slowdown in the global economy.

Moody's also comes after the United States of its top AAA rating by standard & poor's, in the midst of the growing concern for eurozone giants such as Italy and Spain saw cut, and is Japan on a par with China.

Since 2002 was due to the high budget deficits and the rise of the Japanese government debt since the financial crisis, coupled with the lack of long-term planning with it and the prospect of a future weakness of growth, the Agency said its first Japan downgrade.

"In the last five years, frequent changes in the Administration the Government on the implementation of long-term economic and financial strategies in the effective and permanent, prevented", said Moody's.

'11 March earthquake and tsunami and the subsequent disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station have been delayed recovery from the 2009 global recession and difficult deflationary conditions.'

Moody's downgraded some of the country's largest banks, including Mizuho Japan you help Bank, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, local authorities and other companies following his move to send the Nikkei index 1.07 percent.

Kan described as "regrettable" the downgrading, while finances Yoshihiko Noda minister - a major contender in the race replace Kan - defended the creditworthiness of Japanese bonds.

Noda ' that smooth turnover of Japanese Government bonds at current auctions show that the confidence of solid remains,' told reporters.

Markets offered a limited reaction to the fact that Moody's warned in May that it would be likely to downgrade Japan.

The yen, a post-war high hit 75.95 to the dollar last week, level remained in a narrow range around the 76,60, after the announcement and bond revenues were stable.

"The market response to Moody's downgrade is limited, as the movement was no great surprise," said Sumino Kamei, senior analyst at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ.

You say former Foreign Minister Seiji Maehara is considered favorite, to replace kan, but whoever must act quickly, post to Japan - quake to secure recovery while gain the confidence that Japan can cut its debt, analysts.

Japan's debt is around 200 percent of GDP, after years of pump priming measures by Governments, who in vain tried to arrest the economic decline in long.

Much of the spending is deeply through a system of social security on a rapidly aging population engulfed entrenched deflation and the weak economy make it difficult for lawmakers to curb borrowing.

The March disasters, which helped to bring down the economy back into recession and forces the Government to, to borrow more to fund reconstruction.

Japan saw his third directly quarterly contraction in April June, with the economy, which shrink by an annualised 1.3%.

The rise of the yen is now threatening exporters, the ago a slowing global economy the prospect more production abroad to retain competitiveness.

On Wednesday, Noda pledged market more supervision and unveiled a $100 billion-body which help, try the yen after repeated and cool to weaken through market intervention, but the plan underwhelmed markets.

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Greece PM wins confidence vote

Athens: Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou has won a crucial confidence vote on Friday after promising to hold power-sharing talks.

In an address to parliament before the vote he ruled out snap elections, saying they would be "catastrophic".

He said he did not care about his post and the leadership of any government of national unity would be negotiable.

Papandreou previously shocked EU partners and sent markets into turmoil after calling for a referendum on an EU deal to bail out debt-ridden Greece.

Papandreou said the bail-out deal currently on offer by the EU had to be accepted, and it would be "historically irresponsible" to lose it.

He said immediate elections would be "catastrophic" for the deal, so proposed a new coalition to take charge until it had been agreed.

"I have been in contact with the president and I will visit him tomorrow (Saturday) to inform him of my intentions and that I am moving forward with all the parties for a broader coalition government, and to agree on common goals, a timeframe and people, to agree on its composition and even the head of this coalition," he said.

"I therefore ask for a vote of confidence in order to ensure the security of this nation."

The vote took place after several hours' debate. Papandreou addressed parliament for more than half an hour.

Thousands of protesters have gathered in Athens' Syntagma Square. Security has been tightened around the nearby parliament building.

Eurozone leaders fear that failure to solve the Greek debt crisis could risk it spreading to other vulnerable economies, particularly Italy.

The figures in the Greek parliament revealed Papandreou's vulnerability. His governing Socialist party (Pasok) held a tiny majority - 152 out of 300 seats. In the end 153 MPs voted for the government.

The vote was timed to take place when the markets in Europe and the US are closed, such is the sensitivity of the issue.

Although Papandreou survived the confidence vote, the political situation in Greece still seemed far from certain.

Leader of the main opposition New Democracy party Antonis Samaras rejected the prime minister's idea of a coalition government and repeated his demands for immediate elections.

"Papandreou rejected our proposal. The only solution is elections," a party spokesman quoted Samaras as saying.

On Thursday Samaras led his MPs in a dramatic walkout of parliament.

The proposed referendum had caused serious divisions in Pasok, with Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos insisting it should not be held.

He told European partners on Friday that Greece had officially scrapped the referendum.

Venizelos said he had informed EU Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble and eurozone chairman Jean-Claude Juncker of the decision.

Papandreou had earlier said the referendum was never an end in itself, and there were two other choices - an election, which he said would bankrupt the country, or a consensus in parliament.

Earlier on Friday, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told the BBC he expected a government of national unity to be formed in Greece and that the economic problems "will be solved".

In another development on Friday, international ratings agency Moody's cut Cyprus's credit grade by two notches - to the brink of junk status - over its banking sector's exposure to Greek bonds.

The Greek crisis overshadowed the G20 summit in Cannes which ended on Friday.

EU President Herman Van Rompuy said leaders had agreed to increase the firepower of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but gave no specifics on the funding.

Papandreou had been summoned for urgent talks at the G20 on Wednesday, where he was told that any referendum would turn on the question of whether Greece wanted to stay in the eurozone.

The next tranche of Greece's existing bailout was also put on hold.

Without the bailout funds, Greece may go bankrupt before the end of the year.

The EU bailout deal, agreed last month, would give the heavily indebted Greek government 130 billion euros and it imposes a 50 percent write-off on private holders of Greek debts, in return for deeply unpopular austerity measures.

Although the Greek public has strongly resisted the austerity measures, a recent opinion poll in a newspaper showed 70 percent wanted to remain within the eurozone.

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